greenighs

I posted pics in the Gizmo thread, but here's the tankard again:

A pair o' black ones I gave to my son and his wife:

Too bad they aint got th' Scarecrow series, there still be a couple I have yet t' find in PDF

It's mostly literature that's in the public domain, from Project Gutenberg and similar orgs. What makes Manybooks so good, though, is how well it's indexed and organized, and how many formats it offers. I got a Kindle for Christmas, and I've downloaded the complete A Thousand Nights and A Night, the Sir Richard Burton translation, for free, as well as most of the classic Pirate lit titles they've got. I have a lifetime of reading I can carry around with me, for access instantly, all for free. I still like real paper books, mind you, but you can't beat the convenience and sheer coolness of electronic paper.

Found a great site to download ebooks for digital reading devices, with a subsection on Pirate Literature. Now you can carry all your favorite swashbucklin' tales with ye an' still travel light! I hope there are some among ye who will find this info useful, though obviously in no way authentic or period correct.

Pirate Tales on Manybooks.net

Very nice!

Greenighs! I was just thinking of you the other day. I thought you fell off the face of the earth!

Just about! This pirate wench has become a granmawr, and has gone from steady employment to freelancin' – graphic design privateer, if ye will – so me interweb fratternizin' has been sharply curtailed. I'm still raisin' hell in any port what'll allow me t' weigh anchor, though. Nice to know someone remembered me, thankee, Silkie lass!

Morrigan Quicksilver outdid himself (assuming he does himself at all) with the amazing dish he crafted especially fer me champion mouser & Maine Coon privateer, Gizmo. Indulge me in admiring some photos of the hand-made masterpiece, as part of our own Quicksilver collection and also with The Beastie himself, Gizmo "Blackboots" Diablo, Chief Mousing Officer of the Green Murder.

I've had me tankard and warning shot for years, and have given tankards and warning shots as gifts, and I tell you they are treasured wherever they are received and hold up to years of hard drinkin' and debauchery (as well as repeated microwaving and dishwashering). Mister Quicksilver is my personal hero and a credit to our kind. Mr. Gizmo is more than just a cat, he's two and a half cats, more or less, and does the dish proud, downing his raw meat dinners with piratical gusto. Aaarr!

Yeah, we had a great time. As usual. Thanks for replying.

Third Annual Pirate Party

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Hosted by a bunch o' scalliwags & rogues from the Notorious Seahorse group at IMAC*

We'll be carousing from right after the Reception until the tide goes out.

Pirate Attired required.**

Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare

5440 North River Road

Rosemont, Illinois 60018

847 671 6350

Stop by the Seahorse.org* booth for the room number, or look for the sign o' the Igh

For more information, email greenighs at tmail dot com, or check this thread on Thursday.

*IMAC & Seahorse.org are not responsible for the ensuing mayhem & debauchery.

**Igh patches & bandanas supplied for a reasonable donation. Yaaarrr.

Speaking o' hats, here's me in mine, with me buddy reefrancher at Fells Point.

Mr. Hand, you are the real deal. Hats off to ye!

That reminds me of a joke that can easily be adapted for pirates ... will post in the Jokes thread ....

Okay, I don't see how:

I mean when you get a message like that from a seemingly nice guy that you used to date. What does it really mean? Is it to be taken as a threat of some type? If you received a message like that, what on earth would be the right response? I need insight!

and:

I let him badger me and threaten me for so long that he must have felt that a message like that could make me give in to him again. Words are only words. After so long together, he obviously knows how to use them to hurt.

Seem incongruous. Is he a nice guy or a threat? Did the PM/badgering/threatening happen on this forum? If so, I'd contact the moderators or admins directly. I don't see how discussing it in public will help the situation, might only make it worse. If the PM was on another forum, maybe their admins/moderators could help.

I'm looking forward to explaining over and over again that in this suit I am dressed as an English Naval officer...

Coastie, stop trying to talk me out of getting a new hat. I want one dammit and this is just the excuse I need to convince Vixene.

Might I suggest one of these:

*Runs away giggling maddly

Sweeet.

Fit and comfort are even more important to me than authenticity and price, and having wide and small (compared to the rest of you guys) feet, I'm not certain I'd get shoes that fit right. I think I'll pass on this one, although I'd love to have a pair of authentic pirate shoes.

Is the short jacket pattern going to include slops, or is that another pattern set? I looked on Kass's site and didn't see the slops pattern, but did see other breeches, so I was just wondering.

Okay, back from the Baltimore Pirate Invasion, and I have to say, NOW I GET IT. I have never seen so many yards of crushed velvet, skull-print polyester blend, and uphulstory fabric in one place! The folks were GREAT and we had a blast, but I tell ya, there was more than one Elizabethan/Cavalier/Robin Hood impersonator there. Even found a mariachi pirate complete with accordian and parrot! A few goth cowboy sailors, I think, too. And a terrific, fun devil/faun pirate with skull beads in his beard, gotta find the pic ...

Will post pics in the Raids section soon.

But anyway, here I was all worried that my kit isn't authentic. I think I could have added a few yards of gold rickrack and fringe to my tricorn and blended into the crowd just fine. :)

Had a blast, will definately go again!

Sweet!

Just can't decide what to wear. It's gonna be chilly, so whatever else I might wear, this pirate is gonna bring a cardigan.

Gonna be a blast!!

I'm stockpiling rubber snakes for opening night. I. CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Oh yes, he will say it.

Fan frenzy for "Snakes" is on a different plane

Thursday March 23 12:12 PM ET

As film back-stories go, this one is fairly serpentine. The Samuel L. Jackson thriller "Snakes on a Plane," which wrapped last September in Vancouver, went back before the cameras this month for five days of additional shooting in Los Angeles.

In this case, it wasn't the usual reshoot, hastily assembled to fix a nagging story problem. Instead, distributor New Line Cinema decided to create new scenes that would take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory.

The second round of filming also came about because of intense and growing fan interest in the movie, which is not scheduled to be released until August 18.

Jackson stars as an FBI agent who has to fight a planeload of snakes unleashed by an assassin bent on killing a witness in protective custody. Sight unseen, the movie has grown from something of a joke into a phenomenon slithering untamed throughout the Internet.

As a movie whose fan base has grown spontaneously and organically, "Snakes" is relatively rare.

Intense fan reaction to movies most often is associated with titles that have established themselves in other media, such as comic book movies or fantasy novels, before making their way to the screen. Or it becomes attached to surprise hits, like the original "Star Wars," that develop massive cult followings once they are released.

But original movies that develop a big prerelease following are uncommon. Artisan Entertainment pulled off that trick in 1999 with its viral Internet campaign for "The Blair Witch Project" but that success has not been easily duplicated.

"Snakes," directed by David R. Ellis from an original script by John Heffernan (with rewrites by four scribes), barely has an official Web site at the moment. But the movie already is the talk of a certain segment of the Net without any real prodding on the part of New Line.

It all started with the provocative and buzzworthy, if also reductive, title. New Line picked up the script after Paramount put it on the backburner in March 2003 -- in the wake of September 11, terror-on-a-plane movies had fallen out of favor. And even within New Line, there were skeptics who viewed "Snakes on a Plane" as nothing but a simple programmer with a "stupid title."

After Jackson came on board, the title was upgraded to the more generic "Pacific Air Flight 121." The studio said it was a temporary moniker being used for "casting purposes." Executives were searching for something that was more thriller-like and less campy. According to sources, Jackson's camp also was in favor of a title change.

"Who wants to be in a movie called 'Snakes on a Plane'?" asked one talent agent at the time, seeming to echo the studio's concerns.

But once production began, a funny thing happened. Movie fans began noticing the black sheep of the New Line slate. They seized upon the title and created fan sites, blogs, T-shirts, poems, fiction and songs. The title itself, sometimes abbreviated as "SoaP," has emerged as Internet-speak for fatalistic sentiments that range from c'est la vie to "s--- happens."

"The title is so clear and so straightforward," said Brian Finkelstein, a Washington, D.C., native who created the blog http://www.Snakesonablog.com and who hopes to score tickets to the movie's premiere. "You know exactly what you're going to get."

Like Harry Potter, whose first suggestion that he's got magic on his hands comes when he discovers he can talk to snakes in their language, New Line got the message. Deciding that so many anonymous fans couldn't be wrong, the studio decided to revert to the movie's original title.

Jackson publicly endorsed the move. "That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title," Jackson told entertainment site http://www.Collider.com. He added, "You either want to see that, or you don't."

New Line executives, concerned that it is too early to discuss the movie, declined comment. But sources now insist the studio never abandoned the "Snakes" title in the first place and that "Pacific Air" was just an internal working title.

In any event, "Snakes"-ophiles already were hard at work. Chris Rohan of Bethesda, Md., created an elaborate, R-rated audio trailer that lovingly mocks the title and movie. "It's a genius title," Rohan said. "It's so stupid it's great. It invites satire, but it's something you just love. It's something I can't explain. You either get it or you don't."

The audio bit uses a Jackson sound-alike shouting, "I want these mother <SNIPX> snakes off the mother  <SNIPX> plane!" Soon, the growing legion of fans added their voices as they demanded that that phrase also appear in the movie.

Apparently, the studio got the hint. When Ellis assembled Jackson and others for the recent shoot, the filmmakers added more gore, more death, more nudity, more snakes and more death scenes. And they shot a scene where Jackson does utter the line that fans have demanded.

Those involved with the film said the reshoots weren't prompted by fans but rather by the existing footage that already was a hairline into R territory. Within the studio, the thinking was, "We're already going to get an R, why not go all the way?" But the filmmakers do concede that the Jackson line will be in the movie for the sake of the fans.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Siren, I think we're sisters! I'm Scampy Crazypaws.

I think for it to be truly authentic, you should make it from the skins of your enemies.

Christine, We Love Colors has striped knee highs, thigh-highs and tights in all kinds of color combinations. Nylon and Nylon blends, though, no natural fibers or "authentic" stockings here. I ordered some tights from them last week (cuz they don't have the thigh-highs in plus sizes) but you could definately find your size in any of their products. I'll tell you how I like the quality of the product when they arrive tomorrow or Wednesday.

C- your wild and crazy

L-You have a nice ass ;-)

A- Damn good in bed.

R-You are very hot and sexy!

E-You're loyal to those you love.

So true, every one!

Ahoy, where in Hades will ye swabs be meetin' at the Inner Harber to catch the infernal water taxi to Fells Pint? In front of the Science Center, or the Aquarium, or the Constellation? And what bloody time ye castin' off?

I'd much rather sail over with a group o' buccaneers than be the only infernal fool dressed like a pyrate aboard the water taxi. Be a different matter if I could carry a blade or a pistol...the first son of a Dutchman what looked at me with anything less than fear and respect, I'd just threaten to show 'em the color o' their insides.

But since the establishments at Fells Pint be takin' a dim view of weapons...

The day it arrived in the mail, I wore my green tricorn all day at work (corporate headquarters, mind you), and my boss just said, "The hat's okay, but you have to keep the parrot at home."

So, I'll be the one with the green pirate hat at One Ighed Mikes!